Safety & Sensor Technology

Today, quality control and the desire for absolute safety have contributed to the introduction of numerous sensors in our lives. Optical technologies have played an increasingly important role in this development because they combine the advantages of a small design, reduced production costs, fast measurement speeds, high precision, reliability, and non-contact measurements across large distances.

A position-sensitive detector (PSD) should be your first choice in sensors when determining the center of a beam spot. PSDs function locally analogously; they interpret the current produced by a photodiode.

All fires have certain characteristics (e.g., smoke, heat, or optical radiation of different intensity). When organic material burns, it has a characteristically high radiation intensity at approximately 4.3 µm. The radiation source is the hot CO2 product of combustion.